A Toronto man has been charged with first-degree murder more than eight months after the death of 23-year-old Leanne Freeman.

A Toronto man has been charged with first-degree murder more than eight months after the death of 23-year-old Leanne Freeman.

The charge was laid Tuesday against Jonathan Ash, 23, who was initially charged with being an accessory after the fact.

Freeman was found badly injured in the early hours of Nov. 29, 2011 on Unwin Ave. It originally appeared she had been hit by a car, but after she died from her injuries in hospital, an autopsy confirmed she was shot. Several of her personal belongings were discovered weeks later in a dumpster in Scarborough.

That week, Joseph Beauregard, 31, of Whitby, was charged with first-degree murder.